Re: svchost.exe taking 100% CPU time
- From: "MowGreen [MVP]" <mowgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:51:09 -0800
If you use Task Manager you can watch svchost spawn wuauclt either when the system first starts up or when the system comes back from Hibernation or Standby and see how much of CPU cycles are being taken up. If svchost/wuauclt are hogging the CPU .....
Open the Services console and Stop, then Disable the Automatic Updates service from loading at startup.
Restart the system.
Suggest you leave the AU service disabled for now and delete the
contents of WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download and
WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Logs along with the DataStor.ebd located in DataStore
NOTE: Deleting DataStor.ebd and the logs will erase the update history one sees on the Microsoft/Windows Update sites.
Then restart the AU service. This will temporarily cure the 100% CPU useage ***IF*** the culprit is AU
MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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Apoorv Khurasia wrote:
Hi.
I am using Windows XP Professional. Whenever my computer starts I find that svchost.exe is taking huge amount of memory (some 100MB) and a lot of CPU time (close to 98%). I identify the process to be associated with audio services. I have to end process and start the Windows Audio Services again. The problem does not repeat until I restart my computer.
I suspect this is a malware activity but Windows Defender, Trend Micro Office Scan and ZoneAlarm Pro are clueless about it. I also tried using AV-CLS in safe mode but they (it uses four different antivirus utilties) also report no problems (so much for security in Windows).
Can anyone suggest me some solutions? Thanks for any help in advance.
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